482 p. : 24 cm

Includes index

The time of troubles -- The Anatolian -- The colonel -- The gray wolf -- The adventures of Enver Pasha -- Islam versus secularity -- Early days in journalism -- Dimo of the Pera Palace and other stories -- The little governor and Robinson Crusoe -- Five finger Cicero -- The Shah, Churchill and Jackie Kennedy -- The Cyprus crisis and Turco-Greek fracas -- Marxists, Islamists and Ottoman nostalgia -- Politics and an Ottoman princess -- The Muslim brotherhood and old Sufi masters -- The revolt of the PKK and water -- A morning newspaper named Evening and the last days of Adnan Menderes -- The tragedy at Gatwick, and the fall of Adnan Menderes -- One newspaper and the destiny of a nation -- The folding of Yeni Sabah -- A rebel staff colonel and an ex-empress in a precinct -- Reports from America -- The moon shot, an old Soviet spy and hi jolly -- A witches cauldron and nest of intrigues -- The Turks and human rights -- The time of the vultures -- Did you say corruption? what corruption? -- The Islamists and the Kemalists -- The Operation Jailhouse and marxist terrorism -- A crisis over the turban and Islamist terror -- The party of God, the party of terror -- Democracy with strings attached -- Legacy of an empire -- The Turks and the great game II -- A return journey -- Was Turgut Özal murdered? -- A confused premier and Tansu Çiller's ducks -- A victory for the Islamists -- Islam's perfect man -- Epilogue -- Turkish cat and mouse game

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